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Shocking new figures released today revealed that over the past five years almost 200 rapists have escaped with just a caution. The startling statistics, disclosed by 14 police forces in response to Freed...

America may be facing a second dotcom bubble, according to former US Treasury Secretary Larry Summers. His warning came as shares in professional networking site LinkedIn surged for a second day in New Y...

The ocean floor shifted sideways by 79 feet in the Japanese earthquake in March - much further than scientists originally predicted. And researchers are warning that immense amounts of seismic stress remai...

Areas of Britain left bone dry by near-drought conditions were yesterday warned they were experiencing ‘a taste of things to come’. Environment minister Lord Henley said climate change would make parched ...

Workers were allowed back into the Brevard County Sheriff’s complex this afternoon, hours after 22-people were treated for carbon monoxide exposure. Several employees reported feeling light-headed and were...

Greece has had its creditworthiness slashed by Fitch, one of the world's top three ratings agencies, in another blow to efforts to get the country's finances back on track. Fitch said that the downgrade ...

*Pianist-as-conductor Zoltán Kocsis zips his way through the "Scene by the Brook" from Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony, with an orchestra identified as the Hungarian National Philharmonic. At 9:53 we get to...

*by Ken* And it's hard to know whether to be more appalled by the people who are or the people who aren't seeking the 2012 GOP presidential nomination. As you shake your head at the notion that anyone co...

Paul Craig Roberts says that the now decapitated IMF director Dominique Strauss-Kahn has been falsely accused of raping a hotel maid in New York and is being denied a fair trial because the mass media in t...

This post is just a collection of blog postings on the past election, for the sidebar archives. Consider it a place to visit at any point over the next four years when you're feeling nostalgic for daily po...

There is a lot of news coming out of Arkansas today.First came the news that a class action suit was filed by law firm Deal Cooper and Holton of Memphis, Tennessee on behalf of the citizens of Arkansas whose...

View more videos at: http://nbcnewyork.com. A United Airlines ad across the street from ground zero that read "You're going to like where we land" has been removed after NBC New York reported that some ...

We've all undertaken home improvements but these residents in flood-stricken Mississippi have had to embark on major construction projects just to protect their houses and livelihoods. These homes in Vick...

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the coastal city of Banias, which was stormed by the army this month, witnessed the largest demonstration since the uprising began in southern Syria nine weeks ...

A 12-year-old Dallas student was bound to a chair with duct tape and beaten by four classmates as a substitute teacher stood and ignored the attack, according to the victim's mom. The Dallas school distri...

China has agreed to immediately provide 50 JF-17 fighter jets to Pakistan, a major outcome of a visit by Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani to Beijing this week, Pakistani officials said Thursday. China a...

The Supreme Court on Monday gave police more leeway to break into homes or apartments in search of illegal drugs when they suspect the evidence might be destroyed. The justices said officers who smell ma...

*-by Noah* Back on April 27th, I wrote a post about how I figured the Repug Party would react to the news that President Obama had released his long form birth certificate. Considering the daily and even...

This radio program is a must listen.It exposes the......and the hype.Referenced is a new study by J. David Hughes, a Canadian geoscientist.Will Natural Gas Fuel America in the 21st Century? ABSTRACT:Natural ...

May 19, 2011 Special Report *Indigenous Mexico Resists* By Fronte NorteSur From north to south and from east to west, indigenous communities in Mexico are standing up for environmental protection, communit...

Slide the arrow to 10:24 for the Wit's End call! The Brian Lehrer Show: Judgment Day (May 20, 2011) Lisa Miller, contributor to Newsweek and author of Heaven: Our Enduring Fascination With The Afterlife,...

Ya'a'teh, This short video was made during a recent visit to the month-long occupation protecting Sogorea Te, also known as Glen Cove, just outside of the Bay Area in California. There has been work for...

I have had a sick feeling in my stomach ever since President Obama went on television on the evening of May 1, 2011 to tell the whole world the unbelievable lie that Osama Bin Laden died as a result of a r...

California Sentencing Reform Should Allow the Time to Fit the Crime: " The revised California budget is out, and sentencing reform is, well, left out. In his revised budget Gov. Jerry Brown recommitted to hi...

SC Pol Says ‘99%’ of Global Terrorism Comes From Muslims: "Terror is only terror when Muslims are responsible, according to South Carolina state Sen. Michael Fair (R-Greenville), who recently sponsored legis...

Mosque Protester, Police Put Miami Neighborhood On Edge: " At this point in time the Imams are “accused” of material support for terrorism, that doesn’t mean they are guilty, in this country we sill believe...

Did Murdered Neo-Nazi Jeff Hall Abuse His Son?: "New evidence has emerged in the case of a 10-year-old boy accused of shooting his neo-Nazi father to death, contradicting earlier accounts of a warm and child...

Accusations of Racism in Peekskill Get Uglier: "A taped customer service training session has led to harsh accusations of racism that city officials say are unfounded and untrue. By Liz Giegerich | Em...

Maryland Passes Bill Requiring French Train Company to Disclose Its Holocaust History (UK): "Maryland passed legislation Thursday that requires a French rail company, as a condition for receiving a rail cont...

Academics may redefine antisemitism: "The union which represents British academics has been accused of 'hurting Jews' by proposing to reject a widely-used definition of antisemitism on the grounds that it st...

When Jack Layton promised that "*I will create more jobs*" during the campaign, many scoffed at him. Turns out he was right. In addition to their rookie MPs learning the ropes, one significant challenge f...

By now, you've probably heard of the religious group that's predicting the end of the world starts this weekend. Harold Camping and his devoted followers claim a massive earthquake will mark the second co...

[image: Workers inspect the status of Water Level Indicator A, in the fuel area at Unit 1, Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station, 10 May 2011. TEPCO] May 19 (Yomiuri Shimbun) – Nearly two months after ...

And the greater war against free humanity. by Tony Cartalucci *Bangkok, Thailand May 20, 2011* - As Adolf Hitler noted, "all propaganda has to be popular and has to accommodate itself to the comprehensio...

There's plenty of other stuff on this blog about the BBC's unbalanced bias against Israel after the President's speech yesterday, but here's one glaring example of their entrenched anti-Israel attitude. T...

On this week's edition of Newswatch: "Alas no BBC exec available". Well, it's such a hassle to go down to the Newswatch studio just to mouth "You're wrong, we're right" in a variety of ways for ten minut...

[image: Roger Stern's estimate of the annual cost to the U.S. military of defending the flow of oil from the Persian Gulf. Roger Stern / battleland.blogs.time.com] By Mark Thompson 24 April 2011 … Whi...

by Duane Craig Lead contamination at this firing range in Alaska Shooting ranges are soil contaminators and nowhere is that more evident than in Anchorage, Alaska where an old biathlon range with lead pol...

While Barack Obama looks like a moderate guy in many respects, and his successful execution of Osama bin Laden is a recent example, there are also situations in which he turns out to be a largely uncontrol...

The 1999 document, entitled "Report on the environment, security and foreign policy", like most that come out of European Parliament, is large and unwieldy, so here is the particular line in question: "T....

Infrared emissions above the epicenter increased dramatically in the days before the devastating earthquake in Japan, say scientists. Geologists have long puzzled over anecdotal reports of strange atmosphe...

A 48-year-old Philadelphia man has pleaded guilty to two despicable robberies in Center City: an attack on a 93-year-old woman in the elevator of her apartment building, and another attack on a young mothe...

The refinement of tyranny and control into a science is the dream to which the 21st century scientific dictator aspires. The study of human nature, psychology and biology aid him in his pursuit. What you w...

*J.P. Morgan was never tried for treason... so no one remembers what he did-- and people still do it* I've been reading Glen Yeadon's book, Nazi Hydra in America and everyday I come across more and more i...

It's all about perception management. The media is trying to dig up as much dirt as they can on Dominique Strauss-Kahn so they can hang the man before he ever sees the inside of a courthouse. It reminds me...

If the signs are to be believed, the end of the world starts on Saturday. About 20,000 billboards have popped up around the globe, including in major Canadian cities, proclaiming May 21 as Judgment Day. "...

It was too disturbed even for Jerry Springer. So when the show rejected an 18-year-old girl who was having a sexual relationship with her father, there was only one person they could turn to - Steve Wilko...

Drinking water is in short supply in parts of eastern China where a months-long drought has reservoirs tapped, state-run media reported. More than 230,000 people -- mostly in rural areas of Jiangxi Provin...

*Secret US embassy cables released by Wikileaks show nations are racing to "carve up" Arctic resources - oil, gas and even rubies - as the ice retreats.* They suggest that Arctic states, including the US ...

Award-winning photojournalist Louie Palu has dedicated much of the past 10 years to covering the war in Afghanistan. His exhibition, The Fighting Season, features imagery gathered during 18 months spent ...

Tests found that the DNA of some villagers in Liqian, on the fringes of the Gobi Desert in north-western China, was 56 per cent Caucasian in origin. Many of the villagers have blue or green eyes, long n...

[image: Deforestation in Brazilian states, March-April 2009, 2010, and 2011. Data from INPE. Note: Amapa and Tocantins are excluded. An area of Amazon rainforest 10 times the size of Manhattan was cleare...

Has there ever been a country more enthralled with delusions of individualism than our neighbour to the south? It's where, despite the mountain of evidence to the contrary, so many still cling to the im...

New studies show nonoparticles from air pollution travel through your nose and lodge in your brain. They cause inflammation and brain lesions similar to those found in Alzheimers patients. These lesions are ...

POLITICS/SEX - US investigators going through Osama bin Laden's computer and other materials from his secretive compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, have found Osama bin Laden's secret stash of pornography. ...

By Charles Moffat - May 20th 2011. RELIGION - According to a cult based in California, Judgement Day is tomorrow (May 21st 2011) and Jesus Christ will return to the Earth and bring about the Apocalypse. ...

You all remember when my border-crossing troubles began: "the gray area": in which i am detained, harassed and threatened at the border. And then continued: border crossing take 2. And so on. The routine -...

In 2000 Gore took IL-10 with 51%. Four years later Kerry beat George Bush 53-47%. And in 2010 Obama crushed John McCain 61-38%. But each year the Chicagoland North Shore district elected mainstream conser...

AVA : Investment Analytics The article is by Stathis. To give you an idea of the type of scum running this globalist push to enslave people through further corporatization and policies which empower ban...

MARINE rescuers fear up to 100 pilot whales could strand on South Uist. Around 20 of the animals have injuries to their heads and there are fears that they may strand themselves. Members of the British D...

*A MINI-tornado has ripped through the Perth suburb of Canning Vale early today, damaging houses and cars and removing tiles from roofs. * Several houses have lost roofs and at least one house has lost a ...

Johannesburg - A total of 644 passengers were injured, two critically, when two trains collided in Meadowlands, Soweto on Thursday, Johannesburg paramedics said. "We had a total of two men who were criti...

A seven-year-old boy has been caught giving heroin to his class mates at an elementary school. The child was caught with eighteen bags of the drug in his backpack and locker after he apparently took them...

The Chinese army have developed a computer game that sees their troops shooting at 'enemy' U.S. forces. Glorious Revolution, which is used as a training tool for People's Liberation Army (PLA) soldiers, p...

Unabomber Theodore Kaczynski is being investigated by the FBI for the 1982 Tylenol poisonings that killed seven people in Chicago. The FBI said they were making a re-examination of the case due to advance...

A 135-year-old smallpox scab caused a health scare after government scientists feared the skin may still be highly infectious. The scab, found in the Virginia Historical society archives, was originally u...

A 135-year-old smallpox scab caused a health scare after government scientists feared the skin may still be highly infectious. The scab, found in the Virginia Historical society archives, was originally u...

Before I post this Article I would like to say, I sure hope it doesn't Because the Grand Prix is on this Sunday.. on a serious Note: This cult has a Estimated 200 million Followers, by Chance if one of the...

With freezing blizzards, wildfires and devastating floods, America has suffered enough weather related disaster so far this year to last a lifetime. But in its first storm forecast this year, the National...

It's a frighteningly fast plunge that is sure to leave all but the hardiest of flyers clutching their stomachs. But if plummeting to Earth at a near-vertical angle sounds like your cup of tea, then this o...

Thousands of children have carried a knife for their own protection in the last year, shock figures revealed today. The youngsters admitted they had a weapons with them - even though they agreed that it m...

The atmosphere directly above the fault zone which produced Japan's recent devastating earthquake heated up significantly in the days before the disaster, a study has shown. Before the March 11 earthquake...

The Israeli Prime Minister voiced outrage at Barack Obama’s vision of Palestinian state on the borders of 1967 as he headed for talks in Washington DC. Benjamin Netanyahu said the plan, endorsed by the Pr...

David Cameron was accused of rolling out the red carpet for Bahrain’s torturer-in-chief last night after holding talks with the head of the hardline Arab regime. Human rights campaigners condemned the Pri...

Dominique Strauss-Kahn was today dramatically bailed for $6million under draconian conditions as it emerged he will face a trial for his alleged sex attack on a hotel maid. The former head of the IMF will...

*CIA asset arrested in Karachi? * It looks as if the Pakistan military is cracking down on the CIA. *1.* On 17 May 2011 we learn that, in Karachi, Pakistani security forces have arrested *Muhammad Ali Qasi...

A retired couple have been forced to flee their picture postcard village after a series of attacks by a mystery arsonist seemingly intent on taking their lives. The fourth and most recent attack on Peter ...

This is the shocking moment a teenage mother attempts to smother her baby in a hospital. Hidden video cameras caught 18-year-old Shantaniqua Scott place a blanket over her four-month-old son's mouth. Mom...

ST. MARYS, Ohio — Water warnings are going up again at Ohio's largest inland lake after another algae outbreak. The state is telling visitors at Grand Lake St. Marys not to swim or wade in the lake becau...

To protect the public from the possible consumption of contaminated shellfish, officials from the New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services (DES) and the New Hampshire Fish and Game Department hav...

Leonard Susskind and Raphael Bousso are creative guys and famous physicists. Both of them are well-known for some papers about holography, too. Of course, the first scientist is still a bit more famous. ...

It is Friday and time for an Open Thread to take you across the weekend. Please detail your thoughts here on those seemingly endless instances of political bias from the State Broadcaster. Click through ...

Fiji's Meterological Service says a heavy swell generated by a high pressure system over the Tasman Sea was responsible for a giant wave which reached Sigatoka's highway. A Fiji Rugby team, which witnesse...

Had to laugh at the interview with the Woodland Trust's Sue Holden on Today this morning (7.42am). Sue was on to spout the usual spiel that we need many more forest, more trees, since this is good for our ...

THE destruction of nature is driving species to extinction - but perhaps not as rapidly as has been thought. While the most widely publicised estimates predict the loss of natural habitat will condemn 18 t...

I listened aghast to this 5 minute paean to the ritual humiliation of Her Majesty the Queen otherwise known as the Irish State Visit. Royal Correspondent *Peter Hunt* demonstrated a lamentable lack of obje...

Given the hostility shown towards Israel by Obama in his blustering speech yesterday, it was of course entirely predictable that the BBC would get very excited about it. We had Mark Mardell and Jeremy Bowe...

A Historic Moment: The Election of the Greatest Con-Man in Recent History | Rebel News - Dissident News and Analysis *“I have a vision of Americans in their 80’s being wheeled to their offices and factor...

I *confess* that my 2-year-old lost my Visa this week. Seriously, I thought I had at least 10 years before we were having problems with her wanting my credit cards. If I start getting Toys R US charges, I'...

I caught a documentary tonight about the legendary and recently departed Les Paul, guitarist, inventor and so much more. It reminded me of this tribute by Jeff Beck and Irish singer Imelda May performing...

If you're the type of person who already reflexively jiggles every card slot and looks for pinhole cameras whenever you go to swipe your card, despair. There is no 100% foolproof way to protect yourself, a...

A magnitude 6.0 earthquake has struck the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 26.2 km (16.3 miles), the quake hit at 00:46:16 UTC Friday 20th May 2011. The epicenter was 111 km (68 miles) East of Tok...

*Midge picked up the stack of letters and post-cards and glanced them over. From the pile he sorted out three letters and laid them on the table. The rest he tossed into the waste-basket. Then he picked ...

A magnitude 6.0 earthquake has struck Western Turkey at a depth of just 9.1 km (5.7 miles), the quake hit at 20:15:24 UTC Thursday 19th May 2011. The epicenter was 80 km (50 miles) from WSW Kutahya, Turkey ...

[image: Workers examine puddles on the first floor, inside the reactor building of Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station Unit 2, 18 May 2011. TEPCO] By arevamirpal::laprimavera 19 May 2011 40 degrees...

George Soros, the hedge fund investor who called gold "the ultimate bubble", has sold almost his entire holding of the precious metal, leading to fears that the price is about to fall. The investor, famo...

NATO aircraft targeted warships overnight, striking eight of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi's vessels in Tripoli's seaport, the organization said Friday morning. A Libyan government official said the targ...

The European Central Bank has threatened to stop lending to banks using Greek government bonds as collateral if Athens changes the terms of the debt, a move which could bring down the country's banking sys...

They are trying to steal the minerals from under the Town of Flower Mound.UPDATE to add links to an article about state sponsored theft of minerals and the sneaky things operators do to extend leases.Forced ...

*It's a tricky business building an episode around an event focused on one of the three households that make up this "modern family" -- last night it was Alex's middle-school graduation -- since the show ...

An Indiana Supreme Court ruling that people don't have the right to resist police officers who enter their homes illegally has sparked outrage among some residents and lawmakers, with plans under way for a...

An Alabama police officer allegedly hospitalized an elderly man who called 911 to report an accident across the street from his house while his wife watched the entire beating from her wheelchair. The Co...

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Thursday accused Western countries of devising plans to "cause drought" in the Islamic republic, as he inaugurated a dam in a central province. "Western countries...

I don't know how I missed this gem attributed to Freeman Dyson. I don't have much time for books these days, but quotes like this usually find their way into my stream of reading rather quickly. Pithy, and...

[image: Arrival of 'Mega Float' at the Yokohama port, 7 April 2011. The float is made up of huge boxes which now have holes in them to store up to 10,000 tons of contaminated water. TEPCO] BY EISUKE SAS...

Loophole-Filled Measure a Bid to Dodge Real Public OversightAUSTIN, May 19 -- Today the Texas Senate heard testimony on legislation touted as a national precedent on public disclosure of chemicals used in hy...

Alex Jones addresses the latest revelations about the phony document presented by the Obama White House as proof of his eligibility for high office. Author Jerome Corsi has now become the target of Whi...

Last month we were worrying that the always ambitious, always reactionary corporate shill, Ed Case, would get a free ride for the Senate seat he once tried to steal from Dan Akaka, a progressive who is n...

New U.S. claims for unemployment benefits fell more than expected last week, but a rise in the four-week moving average to a six-month high indicated the labor market recovery will remain painfully slow. ...

Prosecutors say a New York City woman admitted setting fire to her young daughter during a voodoo ritual by pouring flammable liquid on the girl's head and igniting it, scarring her body. Marie Lauradin ...

*On the rare occasion* that New Yorkers talk about farming, it's usually something along the lines of what sort of organic kale to plant in the vanity garden at the second house in the Adirondacks. But on ...

For some, it's Judgment Day. For others, it's party time. A loosely organized Christian movement has spread the word around the globe that Jesus Christ will return to earth on Saturday to gather the faith...

Russian Interior Ministry troops were fed dog food earlier this year to save money, a former officer in the ministry said on Thursday. A rare whistleblower in Russia's expansive security forces, ex-Major ...

Have you herd about the Sheeple Quiz? Although most NaturalNews readers will easily beat it, it's a fun quiz to find out how smart (or gullible) your friends really are. So let 'em take the Sheeple Quiz! A...

People are always talking about the silver/gold ratio—but the copper/gold ratio seems to be much more predictive of market trends. My friend Michael Hampton has this very interesting chart—check it out. T...

*I stated on Jan 1st in Doom is Always 6 Months Away, that I believe that our psychopathic Elite will blame China for the collapse of the dollar. *It did not take long for Donald Trump to float that trial ...

New Hampshire is different from Ohio, Wisconsin, Maine, Indiana, Florida, Arizona, Michigan, and Texas. Like them, New Hampshire suddenly finds itself in the grasp of an ideologically extremist-- and dete...

* the**REALnews* May 19, 2011 *Social networks used to call thousands to protest in Spain* EuroNews: Hoping to repeat the success of Egyptian people power, various groups in Spain have occupied Madrid's...

It's somewhat paradoxical that the nuclear forum is taking place in Prague because the Czech Republic effectively rejects the idea of new tests of the nuclear power plants. *Dukovany, the older of the t...

Cenk Uygar is right. Corporatism has utterly corrupted American democracy and, as shown by the *Citizens United* decision, the country's top court to boot. The thing many don't understand yet is that th...

*Baitullah Mehsud. * The 'Osama bin Laden compound' in Abbottabad was called *Waziristan Haveli*. According to a neighbour called Danial: "There was a rumour in the neighbourhood that the man who lived th...

CANADA - The Toronto District School Board has approved a $445 million deal to add solar panels to almost every school in Toronto over the next 20 years, at no extra cost to taxpayers. It will be the bigge...

President Barack Obama has called for the creation of a non-militarized Palestinian state based on the pre-1967 Israeli borders. “*At a time when the people of the Middle East and North Africa are casting ...

I have always wanted to be in more than one place at once. Wouldn't that be a great superpower? Imagine all of the things you could get done, maybe even part of me could take a nap while the other part cle...

by Duane Craig Chlorinated solvents such as tetrachlorethylene (PCE) are thought to have contributed to the vapor intrusion of homes in Madison, Wisconsin. The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources s...

A London Ambulance Services paramedic suffered a heart attack after accidentally taking overdose of tablets to help her sleep, an inquest found today. Lorna Lambden, 27, was found by her boyfriend on 17 ...

A 'womanising' qualified male nurse staged car crashes to murder his first wife and try to kill his second -as part of a plot to pocket £1 million in insurance payouts. Devious Malcolm Webster, 52, murder...

A new class of 'lonely planets' floating on their own in space has been found by astronomers. The dark, Jupiter-like worlds are isolated and far from any host star. Scientists believe they may have been e...

[image: Doomsday billboard reads 'Save the Date! Return of Christ May 21, 2011'. WeCanKnow.com / wonkette] Desdemona readers outside of the failing U.S. industrial deathkulture may not be aware of the l...

Police are hunting for a woman who dumped the body of her newborn baby girl in a Yorkshire rubbish tip. A staff member at Association Waste Management, in Bradford, made the gruesome discovery at the firm...

Two teenage girls who terrorised an estate leaving one man too scared to turn on his house lights are being taken to the cinema and on canal boat trips to stop them re-offending. Amanda Holt, 16, and Tori...

A South Korean man found with his hands and feet nailed to a wooden cross and a crown of thorns on his head is likely to have killed himself, according to police. The unidentified 58-year-old taxi driver ...

FIREFIGHTERS were last night battling to control a massive fire at a Dandenong South factory that contained about 800,000 litres of flammable lubricants. CFA operations officer Arthur Haynes said the 20 ...

As I said all along, this is really the best solution to the Liberals' search for an interim leader. Rae is an outstanding communicator and will keep the party relevant during the search for a younger, per...

Daily I get more worried hearing that Dreadful term 'Human Rights' it's a cop-out for the stupid, criminals and rich. Why Don't we hear people fighting for the Victims, why is it always the accuser that h...

A rise in sexually transmitted diseases among teens and young adults could be attributed to social networking websites, a report has suggested. Health experts said a recent spike in STDs in America may be ...

After stunning railway staff by trying to get his horse on a train, it emerged today that it wasn't the first time its owner had treated him like one of the family. Remarkably he had taken the animal into...

The man who beheaded a British grandmother was released from a mental health hospital in the UK after he was sectioned last summer. Deyan Deyanov was in Britain visiting relatives when he was admitted to t...

A sick thief who robbed a young woman as she lay dying in the street after plunging 80 feet from the top of a multi storey car was behind bars tonight. Ben Heney, 23, sneaked up to the 22-year-old victim a...

Wall Street and Big Insurance have poured more cash into Paul Ryan's political career than into any other Wisconsin politician in history. They recognized something in him early on and kept the money roll...

*True Patriot Media* This guy doesn't know when to quit: NEW YORK (AP) -- Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said Tuesday that if Republicans insist on passage of their budget plan as a condition for a...

[image: The sub-national map of the Water Stress Index 2011. Water stress is a major issue for the large emerging economies, including India (30) and South Korea (36), which are both categorised as ‘high...

*by Len Hart, The Existentialist Cowboy* Though his 'presidency' was cut short, JFK had already grown disillusioned by the CIA and the US Military-Industrial Complex. JFKs 'awakening' was among several mo...

[image: A farmer on his dried field in Wuhan, China, May 2011. Crops and drinking water have been threatened by a long drought. Getty Images] By EDWARD WONG 16 May 2011 BEIJING — A severe drought along...

Police in China say they are seeking a man who allegedly threw an egg and shoes at the designer of the country's Great Firewall of web controls. Fang Binxing was lecturing at Wuhan University, Hubei provi...

Please don't feed the animals. Or touch them. Or do anything to keep them from crossing levees to escape rising floodwaters. At a time they are already under stress, deer, bear, turkeys and other animals...

The flood-swollen Mississippi River held at historic levels at Vicksburg early Thursday -- a status it's not expected to relinquish for days. Hitting its expected peak of 57.1 feet hours ahead of the ori...

At least 840 people were killed and more than 6,000 injured during the Egyptian revolution earlier this year as then-President Hosni Mubarak clung to power through violence and intimidation, Amnesty Inte...

The following series of photo essays are not new, and are from the book entitled "The Hungry Planet" featured by Time Magazine. They are worth posting, however, as rising food prices steadily bring revolut...

These things usually are. When the West, particularly the Americans, finally leave Afghanistan it's probably going to be messy - for a time. The Western presence in Afghanistan, military and civilian, ...

*With Sony's PlayStation Network freshly back online, attackers have once again breached the system, this time going for a vulnerability with the system's password reset.* This is getting (more) ridiculou...

China has admitted that the Three Gorges Dam has created a range of major problems that need solving quickly. Top leaders say the project has led to environmental problems and issues involving relocating...

In Chile, it was called the *The Brick*. It was the many-thousand page economic manifesto of Dictator Augusto Pinochet, written by "the Chicago Boys" - Chilean exchange students from the University of Chic...

Call it the arrow of cancer. Like the arrow of time, it was supposed to point in one direction. Cancers grew and worsened. But as a paper in The Journal of the American Medical Association noted last week...

TEPCO has just released new photos of the March 11th tsunami hitting the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. The following sequence shows the first tsunami wave approaching the plant, overwhelming the sea...

This little corner's taken its whacks at the Ford "vision" before, but the saga of the Fort York bridge just underlines it all over again. The context for the discussion is ably set up by cityslikr over at...

Goodwin Liu was first nominated to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals on February 9, 2010. Today he'll finally be voted on... kind of. What will be voted on is a cloture resolution triggered Tuesday evening...

Two Mississippi fishermen have reported hooking manatees in the last week. While both incidents happened in the same area -- around the Katrina Reef near Deer Island, just off the Mississippi coast from O...

A huge fire has engulfed a scrapyard in Newcastle, prompting police to warn nearby residents to close doors and windows. Thick black smoke has been billowing from the site of the blaze in the Byker area...

An aeroplane has skidded off a runway and burst into flames as it took off from an air base injuring three people. The Boeing 707 tanker plane was taking off from Point Mugu Naval Air Station in Southern ...

Osama bin Laden recorded a message praising the Middle East protest movements shortly before his death, predicting the revolutions would spread across the region. The 12-minute message was released as a v...

A health warning has been issued for parts of Lake Rotorua and Lake Rotoiti. The affected areas include the eastern side of Lake Rotorua from Holdens Bay to Ohau Channel and the Okere arm portion of Lake R...

LAWRENCEVILLE, Ga. - Gwinnett County is under a “Rabies Alert” after a two animals believed to be rabit bit a teenager and a 4-year-old boy. The attacks happened at neighboring apartment complexes in Law...

Mbombela - A hailstorm has damaged 53 houses in the Hoyi area of Mpumalanga, the provincial government said on Thursday. Some of the houses were totally destroyed in the storm on Tuesday night, the co-ope...

The following inspiring video may anger monarchists, but everything stated is fact. The Windsor gangster family are responsible for most of the evils in the modern world. Their crimes go back through their...

(Image) Sir David Attenborough yesterday said artificially-reconstructed scenes during science shows including Inside The Human Body (pictured) had become a 'big problem' Computer-generated imagery in sci...

A man who allegedly pinned a flight attendant against the wall and tried to open the exit hatch of a plane mid-air was trying to commit suicide, according to prosecutors. The terrifying drama unfolded on ...

A gunman shot dead his business partner and injured his wife because he thought he had been cut out of a lucrative patent deal, it was claimed today. Ilya Iglanov, 48, called at the house of business asso...

A High School principal has been placed on leave after he hypnotised a teenage student who committed suicide the next day. Dr George Kenney was given his orders by school chiefs in Florida as they launche...

A mother has reportedly admitted killing her son after the dead boy’s body was found on a dirt road. Julianne McCrery, of Irving, Texas, allegedly told a female trooper: ‘I killed my son. I want to kill m...

It has been 15 months since the McStay family vanished without a trace. A carton of eggs on the counter, two bowls of popcorn on the futon and two dogs in the backyard were all they left behind, clues that...

This is the dramatic moment a mother swerves towards her daughter and runs her over after a furious row in a supermarket car park. The 19-year-old was hurled to the floor after her mother deliberately aime...

A mother who admitted on national television that she gave her eight-year-old daughter Botox injections may have been lying in a desperate attempt to get publicity. Kerry Campbell caused outrage when she...

David Cameron has said that he didn’t believe a full inquest into the death of weapons expert Dr David Kelly was necessary. The Prime Minister – apparently pre-empting the findings of an official review ...

An Afghan detained at the Guantanamo Bay prison has died in an apparent suicide. The 37-year-old prisoner, identified only as Inayatullah, was accused of being an Al Qaeda member and housed at the controv...

Iran faced global condemnation today after it defied safety warnings and launched the country's first nuclear power plant. Western countries including the United Kingdom and the U.S. have for years feared...

Confu­sion af­ter Vice Pres­ident Biden landed in Chicago on Monday almost resulted in a colli­sion be­tween two pas­sen­ger planes just above the tarmac at O’Hare International Airport, accord­ing to fed­...

Solar storms could have 'devastating effects' on human technology when they hit a peak in two years' time, a leading scientist has warned. U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration assistant sec...

A three-year-old boy drowned after falling through a manhole and into an underground tank of used cooking oil. Jordy Marmolejo fell into the tank used to store waste oil as he played behind his father's f...

Tanks bombarded a Syrian border town for the fourth day on Wednesday in a military campaign to crush protests against President Bashar al-Assad, under mounting Western pressure to stop his violent repressi...

The uncle of a 14-year-old boy who was stabbed to death appeared in court today accused of his murder. Jordan Cooper was found in a house in Newriggs in the Fatfield area of Washington, Tyne and Wear, in ...

The emergency services launched a major incident operation after a man was blown up in his car today. The 58-year-old died after the blast on Old Cemetery Lane, Hartlepool, Teesside, blew the roof off his...

Charlie Haden, an obscure jazz bassist whose hero is the muderous thug Che Guevara - to the extent that he has written whole albums in praise of him - is not widely known outside jazz circles. No matter, h...

Japan's economy, sputtering since the March 11 earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster, has fallen into recession, according to government figures released Thursday. The country's gross domestic produc...

[image: State food insecurity rates for U.S. seniors, 2001-2007. U.S. map containing the geographical distribution of food insecurity across states, where food insecurity rates are broken into four categ...

* Paul Stewart as Tommy Haley with Kirk Douglas as Midge in the 1949 film version of Champion * *"I don't need no contrac'. He knows it was me that drug him out o' the gutter and he ain't goin' to turn me d...

I was out shopping for groceries the other day with a friend of mine who has been living in Beijing for over a decade. We stopped by the fruit section, and I automatically gravitated to the bright red ap...

A man who claims to have had sex with 1,000 cars has defended his "romantic" feelings towards vehicles. Edward Smith, who lives with his current "girlfriend" – a white Volkswagen Beetle named Vanilla, ins...

*( I finally figured out a way to rescue my lost post from last week so sorry for the repeat post in your reader.)* I take my camera everywhere. It is both a good and bad habit of mine. Good because I have...

The obvious answer is because it doesn’t matter. Those pushing for cuts in Social Security and the other big items on the right’s agenda can get the basic facts about Social Security, the budget and the ...

“Great men, great nations, have not been boasters and buffoons, but perceivers of the terror of life, and have manned themselves to face it." - Ralph Waldo Emerson Authoritarian globalism, not terrorism...

Four white Philadelphia teachers filed federal race-bias lawsuits that accuse a black principal of creating a hostile work environment and suggesting they were unfit to teach black children. The teachers...

*At a New York screening of the new HBO adaptation of Andrew Ross Sorkin’s Too Big to Fail, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said that not only is our financial system not too large to go bust—but we’re...

A Basking Ridge homeowner would really like to know why there’s a crater in her front yard. “To me it looked like something blew out of the ground because the grass was folded back, the rocks and dirt we...

The U.S. Postal Service will begin to default on its financial obligations just over four months from now unless Congress takes action to relieve it of its obligation to pre-fund retiree health care accoun...

The Canadian Security Intelligence Service, Canada's principal intelligence agency, routinely transmits to U.S. authorities the names and personal details of Canadian citizens who are suspected of, but not...

China has blocked the release of a UN report accusing North Korea of sharing ballistic missile technology with Iran in violation of sanctions. China's UN ambassador said that Beijing was "still studying t...

Matt Taibbi, the Rolling Stone writer who labeled Goldman Sachs a "vampire squid" in one of the defining stories of the financial collapse, has written another article on the Wall Street firm. This one ...

There are certain times in life when a man is faced with overwhelming adversity… times when he has no reason to adhere to society’s norms anymore. It is in these instances that the true quality of his char...

For those who thought the new Stephen Harper, free from the shackles of minority government, would be any different from the old Stephen Harper, think again: *Harper appoints three defeated candidates to...

A key senator has asked the Social Security Administration to investigate how people who live their lives role-playing as “adult babies” are able to get taxpayer-funded disability payments - after one of t...

*Two of Congress' most corrupt members* A few days ago we looked at a quote by President Franklin Roosevelt: “The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a...

Syria, Libya, and beyond, Globalists prepare for second phase. by Tony Cartalucci Bangkok, Thailand May 18, 2011 - While the "easier" nations of Tunisia and Egypt were picked apart by foreign-funded color...

Have you ever used a computer tutorial that not only told but *showed *(using pictures) exactly what to click and how to do everything? Or seen a giveaway winner announced where they showed the number gene...

BBC news journalism to a very large extent relies on reporting stories that fit an existing left-liberal narrative and ignoring stories which challenge this narrative - the classic example being the enormo...

Just days after a young man died in Australia during a 'planking' prank, a second man is fighting for his life after seriously injuring himself during the internet craze. Simon Hallam, a plasterer from th...

Stargazers around the world are helping scientists to try and detect signals from an advanced civilisation on another planet. In February, Nasa announced that its Kepler space telescope had identified 1,2...

This is the moment a man lunges at police with a two-foot machete - as more than 30 officers try and detain him. The images shows a pot-bellied man in a distinctive floral shirt viciously swinging the hug...

A man has claimed that the Predator obsessed killer who beheaded a grandmother in Tenerife tried to kill him as well. Bulgarian Deyan Deyanov is said to have hit security guard Fermin Suarez Perez, 45, ov...

[image: Link]Hanging precariously outside a seventh-storey window, this is the dramatic moment a bride-to-be was saved from falling to the ground below. The desperate woman had clambered out on to the win...

A teenager who plunged 30ft to his death from a balcony may have been trying to recreate an acrobatic stunt from Britain's Got Talent. Christopher Hughes, 17, tried to perform a handstand on the railing of...

(Image) Ms Elisabeth Tercero visiting the grave of her son, Mr Luis Picado, who died after a kidney operation. Mr Luis Picado's mother remembers the day her son thought he had won the lottery. He came ho...

A convicted child kidnapper has admitted he was responsible for the disappearance of a 20-year-old woman in 1992, police revealed today. Larry DeWayne Hall has confessed he snatched Laurie Depies from the ...

A double murderer shouted out 'I love you' to his daughter seconds before he was executed for a crime he says he can't remember committing. Ohio man Daniel Lee Bedford, 63, confessed to shooting ex-girlfr...

One quarter of the Superfund sites in New Mexico are related to mining and near Grants, New Mexico, there are 97 old uranium mining sites that make up two Superfund sites. Together these mines produced mor...

Before we look at the new Cabinet, the answer to the question on everyone's mind: No, Maxime Bernier *didn't* bring a date to the swearing in. With that out of the way, a look at the new puppets in the St...

Long before European explorers ventured across the Pacific Ocean, some of the most adept sailors ever known to history made their way across the vast expanse of the Pacific Ocean to settle on remote Easter...

Long before he joined the Bush team that saddled American seniors with Medicare Part D (and the infamous Donut Hole), Tommy Thompson was a relatively popular mainstream conservative governor of Wisconsin....

We're not to blame for it. It's what we do. It's human nature and it's also one of our greatest weaknesses. Anthropologist Jared Diamond uses the term "landscape amnesia" to describe it. Imagine regula...

Hundreds of firefighters continued to battle dozens of wildfires across Alberta on Wednesday, as evacuees from Slave Lake waited to find out whether their homes survived the fire that destroyed much of the...

In case you haven't noticed, the world is on the verge of a horrific global food crisis. At some point, this crisis will affect you and your family. It may not be today, and it may not be tomorrow, but it ...

I've been asked whether it is safe to eat salmon from Alaska and other West Coast locals. I'm copying below my article on this issue from last month. As journalist Harvey Wasserman noted on a radio progr...

Protests against Spain's economic crisis took a new turn Wednesday as social media networks fueled calls for demonstrators to take to the streets before local elections a few days away. Thousands returne...

Just as the eurozone is being threatened by faltering economies, East Africa is moving closer to its own monetary union. But some are asking if it's ready for a common currency, and in light of Europe's tr...

Over the past several days, quite a few readers have been asking us why we are so confident that QE3 (in some format: it does not and likely will not be in the form of the Large Scale Asset Purchases that ...

Get ready. We are now entering the final stages in the collapse of the U.S. dollar, and it's not going to be pretty. The massive increases in money supplies will tank the value of the dollar and erode the...

An average 30-year old who’s eaten three meals a day since birth has consumed more than 30,000 meals to date. Even if you’ve only eaten half that much you have to admit this: you’ve let some of that brea...

President Bill Clinton once described homes as something Americans "will always know that their country wanted them to have because they were entitled to it as part of the American dream". t's how the 42n...

*May 17, 2011* Two Missouri labor professors have been vindicated after a right-wing smear campaign almost cost them their jobs. Last month, the website BigGovernment.com—run by right-wing blogger Andr...

I'm posting this on behalf of "The Aged P"...with thanks to him for nailing this one. "Probably much consumption of valium at the Beeb this morning as the ONS reported a 36,000 drop in unemployment, the s...

[image: The dried up banks of the Yangtze River in southwest China are seen earlier this month. Chinese factories are facing curbs on electricity use as coal prices soar and a severe drought hits hydropo...

*Ryan & Daniels-- as serious as it gets in GOP-land* Beltway pundits are desperately trying to create a serious contender for the GOP. Most have proven their worth by pushing Trump and Newt into the Ameri...

A British tourist called the Islamic prophet Muhammad a terrorist in a heated row with an electronics salesman in a Dubai shopping mall, a court heard yesterday. Andrew Graham, 40, faces spending a year i...

Recent satellite images obtained by Fox News from the aerial imagery company GEOEYE show an expanding nuclear facility at the Khushab facility about 100 miles south of Pakistan's capital city of Islamabad....

In the aftermath of a devastating wildfire that destroyed much of the town of Slave Lake in Canada, an article in the Edmonton Journal invites ridicule by deniers in the comments by making an explicit lin...

(Image) David Norris (L) and Gary Dobson (R) Two men are to face trial for the murder of London teenager Stephen Lawrence 18 years ago. Gary Dobson and David Norris have been charged with killing the 18-...

'OK, Pogge, I'll see you a "Now representing Canada on the world stage" and raise you a "New face of Canadian diplomacy". The man who named his cat "Thatcher" is rumoured to be named today as our new Mi...

Well, has Victoria Derbyshire taken Ken Clarke's scalp following this? I don't recall such a tough approach from her with Labour Minister's during the Golden Years but that said, since I find Clarke a C.I....

The second of the three "books on books" on my spring-summer reading list was *Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare*, by James Shapiro. *Contested Will* is not an examination of who wrote Shakespeare's p...

*Click on the chart to enlarge* Looks like that half million dollars Republican Craig Huey spent out of his own pocket may have earned him a spot in the July run-off against front-runner Janice Hahn who w...

Midweek and time for a new Open Thread as I can see the Monday one is already approaching the 200 mark! Happy with good old Auntie - no? Well, tell me why... Click through to read and contribute comments...

Following his whipping in the recent local Council elections and the heavy loss in the AV poll, Lib-Dem leader Nick Clegg evidently feels that he must be seen to be more hostile to the Coalition in which h...

A couple accused of almost beating their son to death claimed his catalogue of injuries were caused by a 'ghost' in their home. The pair insisted an evil spirit was responsible for the multiple bruises on ...

One of the more colourful attack lines the BBC is running against the Conservatives is that it is out for "revenge" against the good and kindly Police Federation ! The hilarious accusation that this Govern...

Up to 13 prostitutes have been murdered in Long Island and Atlantic City – now police believe two more murders may be connected to the killings, including a mother of three whose dissected body was found i...

A uniformed cop shot himself in the head after arguing with his girlfriend who he thought was about to leave him. Officer Philip Chlanda, 29, left his Tribeca station house at 3 am this morning and drove ...

If this stunning image of the Northern Lights looks too good to be true, then that might be because it is... almost. Photographer Stephane Vetter combined six exposures to capture not only two green auror...

Tunisia has threatened to report Libya to the UN Security Council if it fires on border areas again amid claims rockets were fired by Colonel Muammar Gaddafi's forces. Pressure has been piling on *the Li...

One of the biggest questions in science - does 'the God particle' exist? - is likely to be answered by the end of next year, it was claimed yesterday. The Higgs boson, nicknamed the God particle, is theore...

He is the charismatic preacher who claims to be Jesus Christ returned to Earth. She, meanwhile, tells followers she is the repentant prostitute Mary Magdalene, the woman who first saw the risen Messiah st...

Leaked government papers in Copenhagen show officials want to own areas where melting ice is uncovering new shipping routes, fishing grounds and drilling opportunities for oil and gas. The document said D...

Jailed Amanda Knox appeared in court today to face charges of slandering murder squad detectives who led the investigation into the Meredith Kercher killing. Knox, 23, is accused of slandering seven polic...

County health officials have confirmed that fleas collected from a remote area of Doney Park have tested positive for plague. According to information from the county Health Services District, the area i...

Osama Bin Laden has got a replacement - but this man is only a ‘caretaker’ for now. Egyptian veteran militant Saif al-Adel is acting as Al Qaeda's interim operational leader before the expected permanent ...

A 13-year-old boy was interrogated at his school by Secret Service agents without his mother's permission after posting a message about Osama Bin Laden on Facebook. Following the Al Qaeda leader's death, ...

Rapists will have their jail terms halved if they admit guilt under a proposal condemned last night as ‘bonkers’. Judges say it could mean a convicted sex attacker serving as little as 15 months in prison...

Dicing with death around fountains of 1,000C glowing lava wouldn't be everyone's idea of the perfect day. But for daredevil photographer Skarphedinn Thrainsson, teetering around theworld's deadliest volca...

An artist's impression of the possible surface temperatures of Gliese 581d. It orbits a red dwarf star called Gliese 581 (right), located around 20 light years from Earth. Cooler temperatures are represent...

In 2008, David Mermin gave an Oppenheimer lecture at UC Berkeley which was called "Spooky Action at a Distance?" (PDF form here). It's a nice presentation why there is no "reality" as imagined by Einst...

The United States launched an ambitious new plan yesterday to stamp the internet with American values such as freedom of expression. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton unveiled the new national strategy on...

A wild camel stands on top of a sand dune in the Simpson Desert, Australia. Ezra Shaw/Getty Images. Photo courtesy: Discovery News Australia boasts the only "wild" camel herds in the world. It started wi...

*CANADIAN POLITICS:* *SOME LATE LATE NIGHT THOUGHTS ON THE RECENT CANADIAN ELECTION:* It's been decades since I voted in any governmental elections (the associations that I belong to don't count). Sti...

[image: http://news-updations.blogspot.com/] *Tunisia* has threatened to statement *Libya* to the UN Security Council if it fires on boundary areas once more amid claims rockets were fired by *Colonel Gad...

[image: http://news-updations.blogspot.com/] *IMF* chief Dominique *Strauss-Kahn* was placed under a suicide watch in jail, while weight mounted on him to leave Tuesday and the hotel maid who accused him ...

[image: http://news-updations.blogspot.com/] The *Senate* blocked a bill Tuesday that would cancel about $2 billion a year in tax breaks for the five major oil companies, a Democratic retort to $4-a-gallo...

*The 1949 film version of Champion was a great vehicle for the young Kirk Douglas. I realize I've never actually seen it, probably because I've had the impression that beyond the use of the basic plot and ...

Rebel forces in the Nafusa Mountains of western Libya were under heavy attack Tuesday by forces loyal to leader Moammar Gadhafi and had issued a call for help, the National Transitional Council said. "Re...

Photo by Marlin Harms via Flickr CC via TreeHugger In the United Kingdom, everyone became so used to others complaining about swallows building their mud nests under eaves and along fascia boards that a r...

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*THE REAL VALUE OF GOLD* *"Belief is the death of intelligence. As soon as one believes a doctrine of any sort, or assumes certitude, one stops thinking about that aspect of existence."* Robert Anton Wils...

"The issue which has swept down the centuries and which will have to be fought sooner or later is the People vs. the Banks." - Lord Acton "The real truth of the matter is, as you and I know, that a finan...

[image: A wildfire burns through Slave Lake, Alberta, Canada on 17 May 2011. In what's been called the largest-ever mass evacuation in Alberta history, thousands of Slave Lake residents are waiting to le...

Bartonville passed the Fair Share for Clean Air resolution tonight. It was on the Southlake agenda for tonight but I haven't heard anything yet. Last night Flower Mound passed it. DishDallas CountyFlower Mou...

In this photo taken Friday May 13, 2011, a farmer holds up the packaging for chemicals used on watermelons that had burst in Danyang city in eastern China's Jiangsu province. Watermelon fields in eastern C...

European Union and International Monetary Fund officials are in Athens carrying out a review of Greece's finances and reform measures to determine whether the indebted nation merits a critical new slice of...

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